Remote interpreting: what is it and why is it important?

Remote interpreting helps to facilitate a communication exchange between the participants, no matter where they are located. Remote interpreting services can help any sort of business to have a global reach, as it helps to connect with audiences worldwide. It is used for conferences, and it has grown over the past year to make communication between people that speak different languages possible, even in contexts of a pandemic.

The growth of remote interpretation 

The world we live in requires multilinguistic services almost all the time, for several reasons. We live in a globalized world, in which businesses pretend to land overseas and reach new audiences. At the same time, professionals are increasingly working from their homes, which enables them to travel as they work. Also, companies are hiring valuable members from other regions of the planet. And the immigration rates are growing. How does this affect the language industry? More interpretation and translation services are needed.  

In the case of interpretation, the arrival of the global pandemic we experienced since the advance of the COVID-19, has led to a logical demand for this service. Courts, medical clinics, schools, companies and institutions started to need more than ever interpretation services almost immediately. In the case of healthcare settings, this even represented the difference between a case of life or death.  

Some of the benefits of remote interpreting are: 

• t makes it possible to be part of a conference or an international call with a multilingual audience without having to move from where the parties are and, at the same time, assuring the comprehension of all the parties. 
• Beneficial for international companies who have headquarters in time zones that are different from their clients. 

• It allows flexibility, because location is not a barrier. In this way, even when the requests are made at short notice they can be easily solved. 
• This linguistic service makes it possible to fulfil a huge range of availability without neglecting accuracy. 
• It is key to assist through an interpretation service in urgent situations, where it is not possible to have a face-to-face meeting. 
• It allows the two parties to communicate more clearly and quickly than if they only communicate by phone, because they can see face expressions and gestures.